Self discipline more….
Before I present to you my portfolio of the top web tools that will definitely help you to work remotely, I need to alert you to one more pearl of wisdom concerning self management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve observed and established a consistent behavior in individuals who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this habit the 50 min effect. I discovered these friends who focus and work for 50 minutes and then take a complete 10 minute break and are much more efficient and generate a substantially greater quality of work than friends who don’t have structured working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of choice remote working online services:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. For my money the search and label (similar to folders) functions have no equal. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the connection stability was unacceptable, but a big pat on the back for the engineers at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber in the world. The current edition of Skype has a ton of very practical features and there constantly expanding collection of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired over a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital media on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally motivated by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it is easily beaten hands down by the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a hairbrush I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
